[Mrs. Don-o]

"The real question is can the rcc point to the early church and substantiate what it does?"

LOL! No, the "real" question --- the one that's on the table now --- is the one I asked:

Can you substantiate that any "ekklesia" in the first Millennium A.D. met these criteria? Anywhere? In what is now Israel, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, the Balkans, Italy, France, Spain, the British Isles, Bulgaria, Romania, the Ukraine, or anyplace else?

A name, a time, a place, a text --- historic evidence --- is what I'm looking for.

That should be easy to answer.

Now, as for your question: it's a very legitimate one, and I'll take it next. You're in the queue.

[ealgeone]

Philippi or Thessalonica would be two examples I would hold up.

As it's baseball season....batter up!

[editor-surveyor]

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The ekklesia of the first century is no different than the ekklesia today.

Invisible, meeting whenever two or more are gathered in Yeshua’s name (not in the name of the ‘Mary’ spirit for sure!)

We know for sure that the RCC has no part in that ekklesia, as its attributes are those of the tares that the apostles put out of their midst as soon as they showed their nature.

Mammon is not compatible with Yeshua’s ekklesia, nor is a collection of art treasures nor phallus bedecked palaces.
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